Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-05-25 Thread Petri Hintukainen
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 23:27 +0100, Alasdair Campbell wrote: On 21/04/07, Petri Hintukainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) unscaled OSD: OSD and video are mixed by hardware using either colorkeying (no opacity) or hardware RGBA layer. OSD and video can be of different size and OSD can be

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-05-25 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 25/05/07, Petri Hintukainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, patch against xine-lib 1.1.6 is available from http://phivdr.dyndns.org/xine-lib/directfb/ Thanks so much for that! I'll be able to try it over the weekend and I'll let you know how I get on. many thanks -- A l a s d a i r C a m

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-23 Thread Markus Schuster
On Sunday 22 April 2007 22:47:40 Petri Hintukainen wrote: Well, this changes are more than 7 month old, maybe there have been some changes to DirectFB to make it work in the meanwhile... As far as I saw it's only a two line patch, so I could try to manually revert it and compile xine-lib

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 21/04/07, Petri Hintukainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 19:21 +0100, Alasdair Campbell wrote: I'll have a look at the softdevice src this weekend compare with xineliboutput. Better to compare with xine-lib (src/video_out/video_out_directfb.c), as there's not even

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 21/04/07, Markus Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, this changes are more than 7 month old, maybe there have been some changes to DirectFB to make it work in the meanwhile... As far as I saw it's only a two line patch, so I could try to manually revert it and compile xine-lib again...

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-22 Thread Petri Hintukainen
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 23:30 +0200, Markus Schuster wrote: (Well, another possibility would be upscaling video in software). Does upscaling really have to be done in software? Excuse my (maybe?) stupid question but as far as I know video scaling can be done by a backend scaler in

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-21 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 20 Apr 2007, at 19:21, Alasdair Campbell wrote: I'll have a look at the softdevice src this weekend compare with xineliboutput. Why aren't you just using softdevice? -- Torgeir Veimo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-21 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 21 Apr 2007, at 11:37, Torgeir Veimo wrote: On 20 Apr 2007, at 19:21, Alasdair Campbell wrote: I'll have a look at the softdevice src this weekend compare with xineliboutput. Why aren't you just using softdevice? Ignore my question, I hadn't read the full thread.. Saturday morning

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-21 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 21/04/07, Tony Houghton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alasdair Campbell wrote: Because I'm using a 550Mhz P3, my only option is to use the xineliboutput until I figure out what is causing the big CPU load variations. As I've never had softdevice successfully running on

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-21 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 21/04/07, Petri Hintukainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 19:21 +0100, Alasdair Campbell wrote: I'll have a look at the softdevice src this weekend compare with xineliboutput. Better to compare with xine-lib (src/video_out/video_out_directfb.c), as there's not even

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-20 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 20/04/07, Markus Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2007 15:06:54 schrieb Alasdair Campbell: config_xineliboutput # field parity # { none top bottom }, default: 0 #video.device.directfb_field_parity:none That's funny, my config_xineliboutput doesn't have this

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-20 Thread Markus Schuster
On Friday 20 April 2007 20:50:16 Alasdair Campbell wrote: My experiences with a 16:9 TV are different but theres some issues with scaling OSD that I would like to fix.. Maybe it's just a config-problem, at least it's a bit non-intuitive :) I noticed that any scaling of the OSD results in

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-20 Thread Tony Houghton
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alasdair Campbell wrote: On 20/04/07, Markus Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BUT I have to admit that xineliboutput uses only half of the CPU power of softdevice, so it's video decoder has to be more efficient... Odd, because xine also uses ffmpeg. Perhaps it has a

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-20 Thread Petri Hintukainen
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 03:27 +0200, Markus Schuster wrote: With Bloomberg (German news/stock channel) I see a very odd behavior: To have to video itself fullscreen, I have to enable local frontend scaling but then the OSD is renderd much too big. So I have to enable OSD resizing/downscaling

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-19 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 19/04/07, Torgeir Veimo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 Apr 2007, at 09:41, Alasdair Campbell wrote: In the original post I was just wondering if xineliboutput has been written with the matrox specific instructions that softdevice's -vo dfb:mgatv uses. As I don't understand the

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-19 Thread Petri Hintukainen
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 12:53 +0100, Alasdair Campbell wrote: Using df_xine -a 5:4 -l 0 -s -f top 001.vdr I get perfect output! This is what Markus and I are seeing for a few seconds before the field sync gets screwed With df_xine -a 5:4 -l 0 -s -f bottom 001.vdr The output is constantly

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-19 Thread Alasdair Campbell
Sorry for replying to myself, but in the meantime, while waiting for xineliboutput to work again, anyone reading know if I can use df_xine for the video display, while retaining xineliboutput as the lirc transport to my headless server running vdr-xineliboutput. ** I know there has been a

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-19 Thread Petri Hintukainen
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 13:54 +0100, Alasdair Campbell wrote: Sorry for replying to myself, but in the meantime, while waiting for xineliboutput to work again, anyone reading know if I can use df_xine for the video display, while retaining xineliboutput as the lirc transport to my headless

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-19 Thread Alasdair Campbell
ignore that, I was being an idiot, set to 'top' now. -- A l a s d a i r C a m p b e l l r a g a w u @ g m a i l . c o m ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-19 Thread Markus Schuster
Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2007 10:41:01 schrieb Alasdair Campbell: If you make any progress please let me know! I'll do! But I hope we both get a pointer in the correct direction here! What sort of hardware do you have? Here it's an old P4 with 2.0 GHz. It's at 40-50% with softdevice, so

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-19 Thread Markus Schuster
Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2007 15:06:54 schrieb Alasdair Campbell: config_xineliboutput # field parity # { none top bottom }, default: 0 #video.device.directfb_field_parity:none That's funny, my config_xineliboutput doesn't have this config option per default... But I can insert it and

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-18 Thread Markus Schuster
Can vdr-xineliboutput utilize the excellent interlaced output of a Matrox G450 with VGASCART cable? I'm asking myself the same question. I've played arround with xineliboutput and softdevice the last days and came across the same issues you reported. I'm seeing what I can only describe as